She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

The police don't need *more* powers to make peaceful
protest criminal. They need *sensible* lawmaking - laws that are actually enforceable without regular mass arrest. There is a currently a crisis of legitimacy in policing, and mass arrest of grannies and vicars for holding placards isn't helping.

(1) Police can already take into account cumulative effect - restrictions on repeat disruptive protests are more likely to be proportionate. (2) Vast numbers of DefendOurJuries protesters have been arrested. It's made future protests more, not less, likely.
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The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
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Reposting this in light of the debates about requests for the postponement of tomorrow's Defend our Juries protest. And a reminder that police forces have considerable discretion about how to manage peaceful but unlawful forms of protest.

Staggeringly inept. And it would have been really useful with this Government to have had a competent Opposition.

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The most shocking aspect of this latest Met police scandal are the incidents occurring in a custody suite, despite the legal frameworks, leadership structures, and high levels of surveillance and supervision. It sounds more like a pre-PACE
environment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Terrifyingly, it was 30 years ago this week that I delivered my first lecture. I was module leader for Foundations of Law, just over 2 years after flunking the same module as a first year undergrad. No teaching training, no observation, just "here's a book and some white board pens, and off you go".

The first of my Coffee Time Constitutional Law video series is now available. This is aimed at students of Public Law as well as anybody wanting to learn more about the UK Constitution.

More videos will follow in this series ASAP. I promise!

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Anyone buying one of these things pre Halloween deserves the choking, stabbing, or electrocution hazard it will inevitably produce when the clock ticks to midnight.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Campus looking very scenic as another academic year at the University of Manchester Law School (@uomlaw.bsky.social) begins!

Lampposts *are* watching us and I've not once died of Covid. The Aston Villa thing however is ludicrous.

I have just read an official report from an NDPB which based its findings on <10 interviews and half a dozen surveys. Suddenly feeling a lot more bullish about my own research and that of the PGRs I am supervising.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%

“Sporting bodies must not turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices.”

UN experts call on FIFA and UEFA to expel Israel from international football, citing occupation and genocide.

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On the rattler across the pennines to @lawatleeds.bsky.social for today's '25 Years of the HRA' event. I will be presenting on Policing and the Human Rights Act.

So this is by no means a criticism of #LOFC, but the fact this has to go through the SAG is crazy. For 0.5% beer. Now I failed GCSE Chemistry, but my layperson's understanding is that your average burger bun contains about 1.2% alcohol! fsm-online.co.uk/leyton-orien...

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text:

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I haven't read it yet but will assume you are suggesting merging Celtic and Rangers :-)